A virtual event raising critical funds for Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County!

Undergraduate low brass student Olivia Nava will present a virtual senior Bachelor of Music recital, titled "Among Flowers," with pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (UC Santa Barbara faculty member) on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. The program will include excerpts from David W. Brubeck's Stereograms, Alexander Lebedev's Concerto in One Movement for Tuba and Piano, Halsey Stevens' Sonatina for Tuba and Piano, and Thom Ritter Georg's Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra. Nava is a student of UC Santa Barbara Recall Continuing Lecturer William Booth.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2221

On Saturday evening, May 22nd, KCSB-FM 91.9 — and co-host KZSC-FM (UC Santa Cruz) — invite music lovers from around the globe to a virtual, live DJ performance by up-and-coming “deep house” producer DIRTY BIRD. Free! (8-9pm PDT)

Personalized Career Planning takes place on Saturday, May 22 & May 29. Classes will be held 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Course number: PDW NC001 (CRN 21694)
Date: Saturday, May 22 & May 29
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: Free

Access Your Inner Healer takes place on Saturday, May 22. This class will be held 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Course number: 23838
Date: Saturday, May 22
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: $16
Instructor: David Cumes, MD

Meditate and Recharge with Yin Yoga takes place on Mondays, May 17 to June 14. Classes will be held 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.

Course number: 23793
Date: Mondays, May 17 to June 14
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: $32
Instructor: Gabriele Barysch-Crosbie

Blood Drive at the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office 4436 Calle Real Tuesday, May 25 1:30pm - 6:30pm in the Bloodmobiles To make an appointment please visit www. blood4life.org using sponsor code 1493 or call (805)542-8500 There is an urgent need for all blood types and a severe shortage of O Type blood. Donations benefit patients

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents acclaimed producer and filmmaker, Mira Nair in conversation with Pico on Wednesday, May 26 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific.

The UCSB Chamber Choir will present a live-streamed concert, titled “UCSB Chamber Choir LIVE - Resilience,” using a live mix of all individual voices and streaming live individual videos on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 6 pm PDT as a YouTube Live streamed via the UC Santa Barbara YouTube Channel. Under the direction of Dr. Nicole Lamartine, Sorensen Director of Choral Music, the choir will present Don Macdonald’s When the Earth Stands Still, Frank Ticheli’s Earth Song, and Kirby Shaw’s The Tide Rises. The program will include additional arrangements crafted by the students of songs from The Justice Choir Songbook and a special live collaboration of Paris Rutherford’s arrangement of Autumn Leaves with members of the UCSB Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Jon Nathan. After the concert, the performers will stay on to talk about their experience of making music in the digital era. Audience members can ask questions and interact with the choir members via the YouTube chat.

YouTube Live link: youtu.be/YnbuJvzu8x0

Join us at the launch party of Santa Barbara Tours & Experiences as we present Magical Katrina. If you're expecting the old rabbit-out-of-a-hat trick or sawing a woman in half, know that this is not your run-of-the-mill magic show. Experience a Now You See Me type of performance with amazing illusions, mentalism, comedy, and more! This is an exclusive opportunity to watch Katrina perform here in Santa Barbara along with a live music performance. Don't miss out!

Join us at the launch party of Santa Barbara Tours & Experiences as we present Magical Katrina. If you're expecting the old rabbit-out-of-a-hat trick or sawing a woman in half, know that this is not your run-of-the-mill magic show. Experience a Now You See Me type of performance with amazing illusions, mentalism, comedy, and more! This is an exclusive opportunity to watch Katrina perform here in Santa Barbara along with a live music performance. Don't miss out!

Over the course of crafting a 20-album catalogue and architecting more than 30 Billboard No. 1 singles as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, Brian Culbertson has charted his own unique course in music. Label him jazz and he makes a funk record. Call him an R&B artist and he drops an acoustic jazz trio collection. Brand him pop and he creates a 32-minute New Age opus. And you’d be hard pressed to name another instrumentalist of his ilk who can mount an elaborately designed concert production that will keep him on the road for three consecutive months.

Culbertson burst onto the scene in 1994 with a chart-topping album that he recorded in his college apartment featuring keyboard-led contemporary jazz tracks. “Long Night Out” landed him a lengthy record deal and signaled that a star was born.

Flash forward to present day, his aptly titled “XX” album – those X’s are Roman numerals – finds Culbertson making a record unlike any of his previous releases because of its diversity.

“It’s a mix of things that I’ve done throughout my twenty records. There’s a lot of funky instrumentals, some pop-sounding tracks, a couple slow jams, straight-ahead jazz, gospel, some vocals, lots of horns and some straight-up FUNK!” said the Chicago-based Culbertson. “The album is very much a mixture of some modern sounding programming along with live instruments, too. Real drums on almost everything mixed with programming. Definitely a cool sound.”

Recreating that cool sound live for fans is the best part as Culbertson and his band embark on The XX Tour, playing more than 70 concert dates. In addition to performing much of the new album, the setlist includes cuts from Culbertson’s hit-filled songbook along with a segment showcasing songs from “Winter Stories,” an album released last fall that placed him in an acoustic jazz trio setting for the first time. An exuberant performer, Culbertson spends months in preproduction meticulously working to create stunning visuals – staging, lighting, wardrobe and effects – in order to put on a mesmerizing show each time he takes the stage.

Possessing style, panache and a savvy business mind capable of moving the needle in music and beyond, Culbertson founded and curates the annual Napa Valley and Chicago Jazz Getaways, which have attracted guests from all over the globe to experience his premier events.

Whether you’re listening to music from “XX” on record or live in concert, you’re hearing an eclectic, entertaining and engaging set from an artist at the peak of his power.